Spring poisoning hazards for pets

Both indoor and outdoor domestic fertilisers tend to be ‘NPK-based’, containing nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P) and potassium (K). Various products are available (Figure 1). Houseplant fertilisers are...

Managing exposure to cleaning products in cats and dogs

A detergent is any substance that reduces the surface tension of water; more specifically, it is a surface-active agent (surfactant) that concentrates at oilwater interfaces and possesses emulsifying...

How to care for and maintain flexible endoscopes

Endoscopes are made up from very delicate components including fibre optics which are arranged in high precision, well ordered coherent optical fibre bundles, charged coupled device chips and small...

Feline calicivirus: unveiling data on viral inactivation

Like all Caliciviruses, FCV mutates readily in nature, and this has resulted in the recent emergence of a highly virulent haemorrhagic variant of FCV (Pedersen et al, 2000; Ossiboff et al, 2007;...